A rainy Wednesdaynight and a city occupied by angry farmers. Not ideal to attract a full Musicon and so it was spacious. An evening of Classic hard rock in The Hague seems to attract much less people than an evening of Death Metal. Those who came would have a trip down memory lane as support band FTB woudl give us covers. This band is formed around guitarist Febby Tasiran, who gave us several impressive solo's. Holding a female voclaist singing male originals you get a different edge at times. For me at some songs this worked, while others were not that suited for the band. Highlight absolutely Mistreated, while Slow an' Easy sounded good as well. Songs not so nice to my ears were Crazy Train and Still of the Night which did not flow. Nice band to have on a party presenting classic hits though.
Kee Marcello is ex guitarist of Europe and no he did not play on The Final Countdown. Let me first share my history of Europe. In 1983 De Nieuwe Aardschok wrote positive about a young Swedish band Europe, calling them Swedish Rainbow. I bought their debut LP and a year later Wings of Tomorrow. Both albums still stand strong until today. Then came The Final Countdown in 1986 and the title track became a hit and spoiled it all. I was not going to see them in Jaap Edenhall with a room full of teenage girls waiting for one song. For Magchiel this remained in the eighties the only show he went without me. Meanwhile John Norum on guitars left the band and released very strong solo album Total Control. I lost track of the band, but refound them with strong albums Bag of Bones and War of Kings. So basically I missed the Kee Marcello era completely. That did not stop him playing TFC though. Coming on stage I had not realized that Kee would be taking care of vocals as well. Three Italians being his band, reminded me of a Mark Boals show I saw earlier this year. Apparently Italy has touring musicians on offer. What about the quality of the show? well very nice. Even not owing the albums most Europe songs came from I did know them. Kee Marcello sung pretty decent and the band was good. Keeping it eighties all band members had the chance to shine during a solo spot. Nice songs and throuh Carrie and Superstitious working towards that finale. When it came it was played in a heavy version and we had a good end of an evening of history. Next time let's hope PSV - de Graafschap is played at de Vijverberg and not on het Malieveld and it is sunny. Much better fitting this kind of music.
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